Tag: WOMEN

The imam had threatened to burn down the woman's house because, according to him, she is an "infidel" as she works outside of the home, drives an automobile and has non-Muslim friends.

Israel’s Garin Tzabar program, supporting ‘lone soldiers’ with no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.

Islam is undergoing a modern crisis which perhaps only its clerics and lay leaders can rescue it from.

When I started to speak and my words drowned in tears, it was she who comforted me.

On a Jerusalem bus driving in Givat Shaul on Kanfei Nesharim street, a Haredi man asked a secular woman to move to the back...

IDF Lieutenant Colonel Shirly Subul is a woman on a mission and has built a career out of transforming the physical fitness of IDF soldiers.

They live in a world apart from the rest of observant Jewry.

The article argues that while naturally aligned with their fellow orthodox Jews, women from the modern orthodox community in Israel are finding themselves aligned with secular feminists.

On those few days when Jews were allowed to go up to the Mount, they suffered constant abuse by the Muslims and by the police.

Hollywood blockbuster portrays Israel as a shining example, dedicated to safety, security, and helping other nations in need.

Black hat extremists in Beit Shemesh are giving Israel a black eye again. A Haredi couple tells a woman to go back to the bus. Police arrest them, and rioters smash bus windows.

I have been searching for the answer to this question...who did they kill...those 104 we are about to release? I know of a mother...

“Mommy, did you sign my spelling test?” “Mommy, do you remember how you told me last week that you would be able to have my blue shirt washed for school today? I really need it for the play.”

Mobs protesting the rule of Mohammed Morsi have sexually assaulted nearly 100 women and raped at least 91  in the last four days of...

Yeshivat Maharat, the first institution to train Orthodox women as spiritual leaders and halakhic authorities will host their first graduation ceremony on Sunday. The women...

The Knesset passed into law on Tuesday a requirement that at least four women be included on the committee that elects rabbinical court rabbis....

Israel's Justice Minister Tzipi Livni ordered her ministry on Thursday to draft legislation that would make the gender-based segregation of women illegal. "Discrimination against women...

The Israel Armed Forces is proposing that women and men both serve in  the army for the same amount of time for equal positions....

The absence of Haredi parties in the government is already being, and women probably will be among those nominating Israel’s next rabbinic judges and chief rabbis.

Do Israeli orthodox rabbis have a “monopoly?” Should Diaspora Jews try to pull Israel’s domestic strings? The National Council of Jewish Women seems to say “yes” to both questions.

Digitally removing women from Holocaust photos dishonors those women and the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

Israel women’s soldiers are known for being tough. They are combat soldiers Air Force pilots, logistic specialists and martial arts experts. And one of them may be Miss Universe.

"Despite the mudslinging campaign against us before the elections, we recommended Netanyahu to form the next government."

GoDaddy's Super Bowl spot was a disappointment for American culture and even more disappointing that it starred an Israeli icon.

"When positions opened, if there was a qualified woman for the job I was inclined to hire her."

Our sages teach it was the women of Israel that saved the nation from Egypt.

A 500-year-old Sephardi women’s prayer book is being reissued in Hebrew.

Earlier this year, the American Cancer Society came out with new guidelines concerning Pap smears, which screen for cervical cancer. Conventional wisdom had long held that women should receive annual Pap smears, but in March, doctors announced the new guidelines suggesting that women receive a Pap smear once every three years.

A high-number of Haredi women responded to the survey. Haredi women suffering from eating issues also face a particular set of challenges.

Apartheid in Israel does not exist, however gender apartheid, apartheid against gays, as well as slavery and racism against blacks, Palestinians and non-Muslims are all commonplace in the Muslim world.